Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 30, sentence 43
“I will obey your Majesty,” said Iván Tsarévich, and again he went to the courtyard and was lost in tears.
Who acts: Iván, head · What happens: obey, say, go, lose · To what, where: Majesty, courtyard, tears · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iván, head), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 obey | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 obey | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 obey | aux |
| 4 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 6 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 obey | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 obey | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 obey | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Iván | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 courtyard | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 courtyard | det |
| 19 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 lost | cc |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 lost | aux:pass |
| 22 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 went | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 tears | case |
| 24 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 lost | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey in a quote | future | Iván | your Majesty | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent majesty=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Iván | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | past | head | the courtyard | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to courtyard=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | lose | past · passive | head not said here | tears | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: in tear=Eventuality |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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